Long For This World by Sophie Hannah
I settle for less than snow, try to go gracefully like seasons go
which will regain their ground - ditch, hill and field - when a new year comes round.
Now I know everything: how winter leaves without resenting spring,
lives in a safe time frame, gives up so much but knows he can reclaim
all titles that are his, fall out for months and still be what he is.
I settle for less than snow: high only once, then no way up from low,
then to be swept from drives. Ten words I throw into your changing lives
fly like ten snowballs hurled: I hope to be, and will, long for this world.
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